Re: The most unusual thing ever done with a farm t

Posted by flying belgian on March 18, 2007 at 12:46:58 from (207.13.162.210):

In Reply to: The most unusual thing ever done with a farm trac posted by Bill(Wis) on March 18, 2007 at 11:54:43:

When my Dad started farming he ran some of his mothers land about six miles from where we lived. He had to haul the earcorn home with a 36 B JD. It had no road gear so he rigged up an old car rearend as a go between running the driveshaft with the pto and trans in neutral. They tell me he could pull the two empty wagons 25 mph. He could not pull them loaded as tractor didn't have enough power to start from dead stop and no way to slip into neutral and start pto on the go. But at least he could make good time with the empties. Anyway car rear would bounce to much so he attached an old wheelbarrow box and threw some cement blocks in to hold it down and give it traction. He had a dog "Betsy" that would jump in box and ride back and forth all day. One time Betsy saw rabbit run across road and jumped out front of box to chase it. Was run over by car rear end and all four axles of wagons and tumbled dead into ditch. When Pa finally got that contraption stopped he went and picked up his dead dog from ditch and layed her back in weight box. He was going to continue on to fill wagons and haul dog home and bury it. To his surprise when he got to field the dead dog jumped out of box and followed him around hooking up wagons as usual. Turns out the dog wasn't dead but just knocked out. For many years after Pa and my uncles always laughed about my dads dead dog coming back to life.

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